OpenBSD 6.0 Is Out With Better ARM Support, More SMP Fun, Dropped Linux Emulation

Kicking off September the OpenBSD developers announced the release of OpenBSD 6.0.

Highlights for OpenBSD 6.0 include Linux-only binary emulation being removed due to being unmaintained and seldom used, updates to all the Open*/Libre packages like LibreSSL and OpenSSH, continued work on SMP improvements, ARMv7 platform improvements, and W^X support being enabled by default for the base system.

Some of the ARMv7 work includes EFI bootloader support, a single kernel/ramdisk to support all SoCs, and more. OpenBSD 6.0 has also dropped the VAX architecture support.

Find out more about the many OpenBSD 6.0 improvements via OpenBSD.org.